Institute for International Affairs
The Institute for International Affairs at the University of Hamburg (IIA) is an interdisciplinary research institution under the umbrella of the Law Faculty there. The institute in its current form was created in March 1973 through a merger of the Research Center for International Law and Foreign Public Law at the University of Hamburg with the former Institute for Foreign Policy .
history
The roots of the Research Center for International Law and Foreign Public Law lie in the Hamburg Colonial Institute, founded in 1908 , whose scientific institutions were merged into the University of Hamburg, which was founded in 1919.
The former Institute for Foreign Policy was founded in the wake of the Paris Peace Conferences on the basis of a resolution by the Hamburg Parliament on January 31, 1923. This first peace research institution on German soil, like the British Royal Institute of International Affairs and the US Council on Foreign Relations, was supposed to use interdisciplinary and empirical research to review recent international history and develop guidelines for a peace-oriented and democratically legitimized foreign policy. In Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy , a renowned international lawyer and historian could be won as the first director of the institute. Mendelsohn's employees included Alfred Vagts , Hans von Dohnanyi , Theodor Haubach , Harriet Wegener and Paul Marc .
The institute also survived a political takeover by the Foreign Office during the Third Reich and its temporary relocation to Berlin and was able to resume operations after the Second World War under the umbrella of the Research Center for International Law and Foreign Public Law of the University of Hamburg. This interim administrative solution was not ended until 1973, when new professors were appointed to Hamburg with the international law expert Ingo von Münch and the political scientist Klaus Jürgen Gantzel , under whom the unification of the research center with the institute was completed.
Current
The IIA has published the quarterly specialist journal Archiv des Völkerrechts (AVR) since 1948 . The former IIA library that numerous older publications on the history of international relations and international law includes is, with about 83,000 volumes since 1 August 2005 incorporated into the Central Law Library of the University of Hamburg and thus also through the online catalog of the State - and Hamburg University Library can be searched.
Managing Director is currently (2018) Stefan Oeter .
literature
- Gantzel-Kress, Gisela: On the history of the Institute for Foreign Policy. From the foundation to the National Socialist takeover of power, in: Klaus-Jürgen Gantzel (ed.), Colonial Studies, Research on the Causes of War, International Affairs. Publications from the Institute for International Affairs Volume 12, Baden-Baden 1983, pp. 23-88
- Hecker. Hecker: The Research Center for International Law and Foreign Public Law from 1946 (with its predecessors), the Institute for Foreign Policy and the Association (1973) for the Institute for International Affairs, in: Klaus-Jürgen Gantzel (ed.), Colonial Science, Research on the Causes of War, International affairs. Publications from the Institute for International Affairs Volume 12, Baden-Baden 1983, pp. 185-428
- Weber, Hermann: Law in the service of Nazi propaganda. The Institute for Foreign Policy and the German Doctrine of International Law from 1933 to 1945, in: Klaus-Jürgen Gantzel (ed.), Scientific Responsibility and Political Power. Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science, Volume 2, Berlin / Hamburg 1986, pp. 185–425